Chinese connections : critical perspectives on film, identity, and diaspora
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Chinese connections : critical perspectives on film, identity, and diaspora
Temple University Press, c2009
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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How Chinese cinema and global Chinese culture intersect over questions of identity
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Global Connections 1. False Consciousness and Double Consciousness: Race, Virtual Reality, and the Assimilation of Hong Kong 2. The Par-asian Cinematic Imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep 3. The HK Venture: The Francophone Cine-logocentric Nexus 4. Wong Fei-Hung in Da House: Hong Kong Martial-Arts Films and Hip-Hop Culture 5. Same Difference: Racial Masculinity in Hong Kong and Cop-Buddy "Hybrids" 6. American Popular Music and Neocolonialism in the Films of Edward Yang 7. Hollywood and Taiwan: Connections, Countercurrents, and Ang Lee's Hulk 8. Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong Cinema in the New Century Part II: Questions of Gender 9. "From Behind the Wall": The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Film 10. Beyond the Western Gaze: Orientalism, Feminism, and the Suffering Woman in Nontransnational Chinese Cinema 11. Disappearing Faces: Bisexuality and Transvestism in Two Hong Kong Comedies 12. Staging Gay Life in China: Zhang Yuan and East Palace, West Palace 13. Whose Fatal Ways: Mapping the Boundary and Consuming the Other in Border Crossing Films 14. Asian Martial-Arts Cinema, Dance, and the Cultural Languages of Gender Part III: At the Millennium and Beyond 15. Singapore as a Society of Strangers: Eric Khoo's Mee Pok Man 16. Chinese Cinema Revisits the City: Beijng Trilogy and Global Urbanism of the 1990s 17. Taiwan Fever? Tsai Ming-Liang and the Everyday Postnation 18. The Spirits of Capital and Haunting Sounds: Translocal Historicism in Victim (1999) 19. Zhang Yimou's Hero: The Temptations of Fascism Appendix A: On Chinese Names Appendix B: Chinese Names, Words, and Phrases Appendix C: Chinese-Language Filmography Contributors Index
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